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By November 1929, Igbo women in southeastern Nigeria had had enough. From the perspective of the British colonizers, the women became loud, angry, and disruptive. They marched through cities and towns and demanded political leaders to step down. The women took their British rulers completely by surprise. The British were ignorant of the discontent among …

(CNN)The Nigerian military rescued 241 women and children in a raid on two camps controlled by the Boko Haram terrorist group, the country’s military said Wednesday. (24-9-2015) The Tuesday operation unfolded in the villages of Jangurori and Bulatori, the statement said. The operations also netted the arrests of 43 militants belonging to the Islamist group, …

“Oh, how fast five years passes in South Africa … feels like 10 months,” one Twitter user wrote in response to the news of Oscar Pistorius’s imminent release. It was a response which summed up the prevailing public sentiment in the country: resignation, cynicism, and a touch of dark humour. For blood-fatigued South Africans, the …

by Lewit Gemeda What kills 800 women a day? The Taliban? ISIS? No. The answer is childbirth. 800 women every day translates to 33 women per hour, 99% of which live in the developing world. For example, a woman in Sub-Saharan Africa faces a 1 in 40 chance of dying during childbirth, or dying due …

At least 2,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram since the start of 2014 and many have been forced into sexual slavery and trained to fight, said Amnesty International on the first anniversary of the abduction of the Chibok school girls. Based on nearly 200 witness accounts, including 28 with abducted women …